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Breast Cancer
Hospital discharge policy influences patients' postsurgery sick-leave patterns
May 26th, 2005
Epidemiologists with Sweden's National Board of Health & Welfare have found that length of stay in hospital after breast cancer surgery is associated with women's subsequent patterns of sick leave from work. R. Lindqvist and colleagues "[investigated] how differences among hospitals in the shift from in-patient care to day surgery and a reduced hospital length of stay affect the sick-leave period for female patients surgically treated for breast cancer." According to their report, "All women aged 18-64 who were diagnosed with breast cancer in 2000 were selected from the National Cancer Register and combined with data from the sick-leave database of...
Source: Women's Health Weekly (2005-05-26)
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